** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Rights group Muslim Engagement & Development (MEND) have launched a new report The Great Debunk: Challenging Islamophobic Conspiracy Theories, which examines how false narratives about Muslims once limited to the far-right fringes have entered mainstream political,...
The Daily Mail reports on the speech delivered by the Home Secretary, Theresa May, for the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust Criminal Justice Lecture yesterday in which she outlined steps to address the disproportionate impact of stop and search powers on ethnic minorities. A review of the powers...
There are reports of two major demonstrations by far right groups in Manchester and Newcastle in the papers today. The Chronicle Live covers the planned protest by the UK branch of German far right group Pegida, on 28 February. Local MP for Newcastle Central, Chi Onwurah, has written to the Home...
BBC News reports on a hot potato that looks set to become a special interest issue in the coming election: religious slaughter. After UKIP waded in a couple of weeks ago to back a ban on religious slaughter, the issue is slowly edging to the fore to the deep consternation of Muslim and Jewish...
As we draw closer to the general election, it is likely, as with previous elections, that the statements of candidates from UKIP will attract press attention as the party seeks to persuade voters of its non-racist credentials. The local London paper, the Ham & High, reports on the campaign...
Edinburgh Evening News reports on the trial of a Scot who placed an early morning call to the emergency services claiming to be the National Front and threatening to “kill” Muslims after watching footage on the Charlie Hebdo murders in Paris. Vincent Hannah, 51, was drunk at the time of...
The Exeter Express and Echo and Devon Gazette both report on the withdrawal of an application for the building of a Muslim community centre in Exeter after a hostile leafleting campaign was discovered last week. Leaflets distributed in the St Thomas area of the city showing two beheaded figures, a...
London Assembly member, Murad Qureshi, has written to the BBC after an edition of Question Time broadcast on Thursday 5 February and featuring George Galloway MP, broadcast a remark by an audience member claiming “that there is a strong correlation with the rise in the number of Muslims in Europe...
Former Foreign Secretary, the Rt. Hon, Jack Straw MP uses his column in the local paper, the Lancashire Telegraph, to sing the praises of a local madrassah which is raising young Muslims to be “the best of British”. It was in 2006 that a column Straw wrote in the same newspaper unleashed a...
The Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and The Times all report on a decision by a north London council to avoid pork products being served in primary schools in the area because the difficulties of managing dietary habits of non-pork eating pupils is too onerous to be managed as local budgets are...
The Daily Telegraph front page today affords space to the new report by the Muslim Council of Britain on British Muslims in Numbers. The report, which contains socio-economic, educational, health and employment statistics about British Muslims as extracted from the 2011 census also features in...
